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It is probably difficult for young orthopaedic surgeons to imagine why we were enthusiastic about knee fusion in the treatment of serious arthritic conditions of the knee 20 years ago. The fact was that all the knee arthroplasties at that time were very poor and a primary knee fusion by means of a compression technique was the quickest of all the major orthopaedic operations to achieve its result. Bony fusion strong enough to permit unsupported weight-bearing could be achieved in a total period of 8 weeks and with a remarkably small failure rate.
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Freeman, M.A.R., Charnley, J. (1980). Arthrodesis. In: Freeman, M.A.R. (eds) Arthritis of the Knee. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67472-3_7
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